The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-11-25


hours later rhey lost fifteen minutes early
ON the route, and that affected them all the
way. and they had to beswitched OF here and
switched of there, and detained here and de-
tained there, and the man who loses time and
strength In the earlier part Of the journey Of
life win suffer for il oil the way through, the
first twenty years OF life damaging the fol-
lowing fifty years.
Some years ago scientific lecturer went
through the country exhibiting on great
canvas different parts OF tho human body
when healthy and different parts when dis
eased And what the world wants now Is
some eloquent scientist to 60 through the
country showing 10 our young people on
blazing canvas the dIlInkards liver, the
oilers liver, the hbertine's liver, the gamb-
ler's liver. Perhaps the spectacle might stop
some young man before he comes 90 the same
catastrophe, and the dart strike through his
own liver.
My bearer, this is the first sermon you have
heard on the gospel Of health, and it may be
the last you viii ever hear on that subject; and
charge you, in the name Of God and Christ,
and usefulness and eternal destiny, take bet
ter care of your health. When some OF you
die, II your friends put on your tombstone
victim of late suppers,n or It win be: 9Be-
hold what chicken salad at midnight win do
for man." or it viii be: ''Ten cigars a
day closed my earthly existence" or it
will be: "Sat down in a cold draught
and this is the result" or it vii
be: "I died of thin shoes last winter or it
win be: event out without an overcoat and
took this last chill;1 or it win be: Thought
could do at 20 what did at 20, and 1 am
here" or it viii be: "Here is the conse-
quence Of sitting half day with wet feet;'
or it will be: s'This is where have stacked
my harvest of wild oats" or, instead of
words, the stone cutter viii chisel for an
epitaph on the tombstone two figures, name
+ ly, dart and liver.
There is kind of sickness that is beautiful
when it comes from overwork for God, or
ones country, or ones own family. have
seen wounds that were glorious. After the
battle of Antietam, in the hospital soldier,
in reply to my question, "Where are you
hurtg' uncovered his bosom and showed me q
| cash that looked like badge of eternal no
bility. / have seen an empty sleeve that
more beautiful than the most muscular fore
arm. have seen green shade over the eye
shot out in battle that was more beautiful
than any two eyes that had passed without
| injury. / have seen an old mission
airy worn out with the malaria of Afri-
|. can jungles who looked to me more radiant
! than a rubicund gymnast. have seen a
mother after six weeks watching over a
family of children down with scarlet fever
with glory round her pale and wan face
that surpassed the angelic. 1t all depends on
how you got your sickness and in what battle
| your wounds. Frederick 7. Frelinghuysen,
the pride of New Jersey-aye, of the nation
and one of the pillars of the Christian church,
and for nearly four years practically presi-
dent of the United States, although in the
Office of secretary Of state, In his determine
| ton to make peace with all the governments
! on this American continent, wore himself
| out, and while his brain was as keen as it ever
! was, and his heart beat as regularly as it ever
| did, he was, according to the bulletin OF
his physicians at Washington and Newark
| dying Of hardening of the liver. Satan, who
does not like good men, sent dart through
his liver. The last my dear friend-for he
was my friend and my fathers friend before
me-the last he was seen in Washington was
| in the presidents carriage, leaning his head
| against the shoulder of the president on his
way to the depot to take the train to go home
to die. Martyr of the public service, be
died for his country, though he died in time
of peace. In his earlier life he was called the
nephew of his uncle, Theodore Frelinghuy
sen, but he lived to render for God and his
country service that will make others proud
to be his nephew, and which will keep hi:
name on the scroll of history as the highest
| style of Christian statesman that this century
or any other century has produced
My Lord and my Godl if we mus
get sick and worn out let it be in thy
service, and in the effort to make the worlG
good and happy. Not in the service of sin
Mol No! One of the most pathetic scene:
that I ever witnessed, and l often see it, Ii
that of men or women converted in tht
fifties or sixties or seventies wanting to b
useful, but they so served the world anG
Satan in the earlier part of their life thai
they have no physical energy left for the ser
vice of God. They sacrificed nerves, muscles
lungs, heart and liver on the wrong altar
They fought on the wrong side, and now
when their sword is all hacked up anC
their ammunition all gone, they enlis
for Emmanuel. When their high met
tied cavalry horse, which they spurred
into many a cavalry charge will
champing bit and flaming eye and necl
clothed with thunder, is worn out, and spav
ined, and ring boned, and springhalt, he ride
up to the great Captain of our salvation Oh
the white horse and offers his services. Whel
such persons might have been, through tn
good habits of a lifetime, crashing the BATH
ak through helmeted iniquities, they ar,
spending their days and nights in discussing
the best way of breaking up their indi
gestion, and quieting their jangling nerves
and rousing their laggard appetite, and try
ing to extract the dart from their outraged
liver. Better converted late than never
Oh, yes; for they will get to heaven. Blu
they will go afoot when they might bav,
wheeled up the steep hills Of the sky il
Elijah's chariot There is an old hymn tina
we used to sing in the country meeting
house when I was boy, and remembe
how the old folks voices trembled with emo
ton while they sang it. 1 have forgotten al
but two lines, but those lines are the perora
ton Of my sermon:
/ Twill save us from a thousand SHARES
To mind religion young,